Three New Yorkers are suing Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his recently implemented tax on luxury second homes, accusing the mayor’s office of causing chaos and wrongly suggesting thousands of people might owe taxes on homes that don’t actually qualify.
The suit does not challenge the underlying tax law. Instead, it accuses the Mamdani administration of failing to follow state notice requirements and setting off a “panic” in late July by releasing a list of nearly 1 million properties that might be hit with pied-à-terre surcharge, then mailing about 17,000 notices to a smaller group of property owners.
